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| Clara Catherine Spawr 1859-1943 Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Hudson, Illinois Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Lexington, and Chicago, Ill. PHOTO |
Valentine L. Spawr 1832(?)-1882 McLean County, Illinois Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Illinois DRAWING |
Peter R. Spawr 1809-1876 Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania McLean County, Illinois Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS ("SPAWR FAMILY OF AMERICA") |
| +Ernest Charles Barrows | +Elizabeth Messer 1813-1895 McLean County, Illinois Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas |
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| +Irena Margaret Neighbarger 1827-1877 Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Illinois |
James Neighbarger 1801-1865 Shenandoah Co., Virginia Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS |
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+Catharine Livingston 1800-1862 Virginia Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois |
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PHOTOS AND LINKS TO RELATED SITES Laurelroots
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through my store: The
Good Old Times in McLean County by
Dr. E. Duis History
of
Peter
and
Mary Best Fourteenth
Iowa Infantry
(Valentine L. Spawr's regiment in the Civil War) Fourteenth
Regiment
Iowa Volunteer Infantry (historical sketch) Excerpts
from
Valentine L. Spawr Civil War diary with current
photos Sketch
of
Fort
Halleck, Columbus, Kentucky, during Civil War Marriage license of Ernest Barrows and Catherine Spawr. Barrows Family
photo including sisters Clara and Elizabeth Spawr The
Spawr
Family of America Excerpt
from
History of Money Creek Neosho Falls, Kansas Peter
and Elizabeth Spawr, the children they still had
at home—Margaret and Joseph—their grandson
Isaac, their son Valentine and his wife Irena and
their daughters, and three of Irena's
brothers—Jacob, George, and Abraham Neighbarger—
and their families moved to Neosho Falls in the
late 1860s. Peter, Elizabeth, and Joseph Spawr
died there, as did Jacob and George Neighbarger.
Valentine and his family moved to Gilman,
Illinois, in 1876, and Abraham Neighbarger and his
family moved to the Topeka area. Cutler's
History
of
Kansas,
Woodson County Map
of Neosho Falls, Woodson County, Kansas
Woodson
County
Rural Schools (Woodson County, KS, GenWeb site)
Memories of a woman who moved to Kansas in 1857 and settled near Neosho Falls with her new husband in 1860. (If you find this page interesting, click "next" at the bottom to read about the next 20 years in Woodson County.) Neosho Falls Today Photos from my May 2007 visit--Cedarvale Cemetery; Spawr and Neighbarger graves; Spawr farm site, Neosho River. United Brethren in Christ Church Isaac Messer was a United Brethren minister, and the Spawrs in McLean County, Illinois, were members of the church. In a history of the Money Creek township (Lexington centennial book), it says, "Probably the first preaching in the Township was by Isaac Messer, a local man belonging to the church of the United Brethren in Christ; with meetings being held at the Valentine Spawr residence" (see the link above for Excerpt from History of Money Creek.) As we know, Valentine Spawr's son Peter married Isaac Messer's daughter Elizabeth in 1829. A church was not actually built until 1856. I recently visited the United Brethren Web site and found the history of the church quite interesting. In some ways it parallels the Spawr and Messer families (German, started in Pennsylvania). I learned that the religion forbade owning slaves from 1821 on, and the church worked to abolish slavery. I have not had any success in trying to obtain a marriage record for Valentine and Irena Spawr from the church; I have not even been able to learn whether they kept registers like the Catholics and Lutherans. It's possible they did not since in the early days they did not even have church buildings. The United Brethren built a church in Neosho Falls, and when you look at a map of where their churches are distributed now, you will see a swath there in southeastern Kansas. Elizabeth Spawer Messer was still a member when she died in 1895, but I don't know whether her son Valentine stayed in the religion. I'm sure his daughter Clara (my great-grandmother) was not a member. Nola Miles Rogers' Web site
Neighbarger
Grave Photos My attempts to find out about John W. Griffith and his children, Amanda A. Griffith and James Griffith. Isaac and Sidney Messer Graves A Note about Photos We're sharing our photos with you--will you share yours with us? Our ancestors probably would have liked all of their descendants to have everything they left, and with the copying technology we have now, it's possible for all of us to have copies of all the photos and documents. Even if you don't have a scanner, you can use a machine at a store to put a copy of a photo on a CD that you can send by e-mail. LATEST ON THE SPAWR AND NEIGHBARGER BRANCHES Nov. 8, 2011 Mary Spawr (1855-1928) I say this often: Don't be discouraged and decide you'll never know something about a certain part of your family history. You never know when or how it will suddenly appear. I had tried every search I could think of to try to find out what happened to Louisa (Mason) and Isaac Spawr's daughter Mary (see my Aug. 13 update). She was in the 1870 census with Louisa and her second husband, Moses Wright. I could not find a marriage record for Mary or a death record for her under her maiden name. Without knowing whether she had married and had children, I didn't know of any descendants of Isaac and Mary. As far as I know her brother Peter didn't have any kids. Her brother Lewis/Louis had a daughter named Mary who married Claude N. Clark; I haven't found any records of children for them, but she didn't get married until she was about 39. Then out of the blue came a message from a distant cousin, a descendant of my great-great-great-grandfather Peter Spawr's sister, Catherine Eva Spawr. She had found a death record for Mary in Idaho! (1928, Moscow, Idaho.) That provided her husband's name (John Malone) and led their tombstone (Juliaetta Cemetery, Latah Co., Idaho). This cousin also found census records for the family, which gave their children's names: Nida (married Larkin), Lora D. (married Frank Jenne), Mary B., and Claud A. Thank you, Marilyn! I hope to hear from their descendants some day. You never know! Aug. 13, 2011 Descendant update I've found a new relative and added her to the Neighbarger descendants page. Catherine Neighbarger and Garrett Viles added one more child to their family in 1900: Cecil M. Viles. She married Carol or Coral Armstrong (depending on what record you look at). I don't know whether this is of interest to anyone but me, but last night I was trying to find out more about Isaac Spawr's wife, Louisa B. Mason, and I discovered she and her family were living in Hudson, Ill., in 1850. So, even though she was born in Indiana, it's clear they knew each in Illinois and traveled to Oregon together in 1853. (They got married a year later.) I have searched every way I can think of to find out what happed to Isaac before Louisa married Mose Wright in 1863. As far as I can tell, neither of Isaac's sons had grandchildren. However, I haven't been able to find any record at all his daughter Mary after the 1870 census (with Louisa and Moses in Washington). July 14, 2011 Descendant lists I've posted updated descendant reports for Peter and Elizabeth Spawr and James and Catharine Neighbarger. New info is included for Isaac Spawr and Louisa Mason's family and for some of Peter M. Spawr's family. I've also added death information on Duane Clutterham and Mabel Eleanor Barrows. CREDITS
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